Athol Fugard Quotes
There are times in my 30 years in the theater that I have come perilously close to losing faith in the one form of action I have in this life.
Quotes to Explore
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Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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I don't know in the world why anyone would consent to be a king, and never to be left to himself, but to be worried and wearied and interfered with from dark to daybreak and from morning to the fall of night.
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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
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I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.
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I've done tons of Debbie Allen musicals. I was a dancer in 'Glee,' and I was a Laker girl for three months.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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I've made it abundantly clear that I think that marriage is between a man and a woman.
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Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.
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There's no one who has been living for centuries.
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Firing employees, that's unfortunately a part of doing business.
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Unless I've got Katy Perry on the cover of my CD, it's going to be tough to sell a lot of records.
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Minimalism in interior design has become a caricature. Everywhere you find shops or hotels with an ambience that makes you feel like you are in a refrigerator.
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You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a really good story because he was this kid who grew up essentially as an orphan, you know, had a tough life, and then he became the most successful baseball player ever. But he was also a really good guy.
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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
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There are times in my 30 years in the theater that I have come perilously close to losing faith in the one form of action I have in this life.
